Satyri 
Satyri (sat'i-ri). .//. [NL., pi. of L.*tyn<, a 
satyr: see siityrl.] The satyrs or argus-but- 
terflies collectively. See Satyriux. 
satyriasis (gat-i-rf'a-ria), n. [NL., < Or. OO.TV- 
piaais, satyriasis, priapism, < aarvpiav, equiv. to 
oaTi'pt&iv, act like a satyr, be lewd, < aarvpos, a 
satyr: see satyr*.] 1. A diseased and unre- 
strainable venereal appetite in men, corre- 
sponding to nymphomania in women. 2f. In 
nathol., lepra. 
satyric (sa-tir'ik), a. [= P. satyrique = Sp. 
satirico = Pg. It. satirico, < L. satyrieus, < Gr. 
aarvptKoi;, of or pertaining to a satyr, < aarvpos, 
a satyr: see aofyrl.] Of or pertaining to sat- 
yrs' as, a satyric drama. The satyrk drama was 
a particular kind of play among the ancient Greeks, hav- 
ing somewhat of a burlesque character, the chorus repre- 
senting satyrs. 
satyrical (sa-tir'i-kal), . [< satyric - - -at.} 
Same as satyric. Grote. 
Satyrinae (sat-i-ri'ne), . pi. [NL., < Satyri -* 
-inie.] The satyrs or argus-butterflies as a sub- 
family of Xymphalidx, having only four legs 
fitted for walking. 
satyrine (sat'i-rin), a. In entom., pertaining tc 
the Satyrinee. 
satyrion (sa-tir'i-on), n. [Formerly also satyr- 
ian; < F. satyrion, < L. satyrion, also satynos, 
< Gr. aaTvpum, a plant supposed to excite lust, 
< adrvpof, a satyr: see satyr*.] One of several 
species of Orchis. 
That there nothing is to boot 
Between a Bean and a Satyrion root. 
Heywood, Dialogues (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, VI. 23T). 
The sweet satyrian, with the white flower. 
Bacon, Gardens (ed. 1887). 
Satyrium(sa-tir'i-um), . [NL. (Swartz, 1791), 
< Gr. aarvpmv. satyrion : see satyrion.] A ge- 
nus of small-flowered terrestrial orchidaceous 
plants, natives of South Africa, northern In- 
dia, and the Mascarene Islands. 
satyromania (sat"i-ro-ma'ni-a), n. [NL., < Gr. 
adTvpof, a satyr, + uavia, madness.'] Same as 
satyriasis. 
satyromaniac (sat"i-ro-ma'ni-ak), a. and . 
[< satyromania + -ac.] I. a. Affected with 
satyromauia. 
II n. A person affected with satyromania. 
satyr-pug (sat'6r-pug), n. A British geometrid 
moth, Eupithecia satyrata. 
Satyrus (sat'i-rus), n. [NL < L. satyrus, < 
Gr. admpof, a satyr: see satyr*.] If. [. c.J An 
old name of the orangs. 2. The genus of 
orangs: synonymous with Simia. Two sup- 
posed species have been called S. orang and 
S. morio.3. In entom., the typical genus of 
Satyrinse, having such species as 5. galatea, the 
marble butterfly. AVso called Hipparchia. 
saualpite (so-al'plt), . [< Sau Alpe (see def.) 
+ -zfe 2 .] Same as zoisite: so called because 
found in the Sau Alpe in Carinthia, Austria- 
Hungary. 
sauba-ant (sa'ba-ant), n. [< S. Amer. Ind. sauba 
+ E. an ft.] A leaf-carrying ant, (Ecodoma ceplia- 
lotes, occurring in South America, and remark- 
able from the fact that the colonies include five 
classes of individuals males, queens, small or- 
dinary workers, large workers with very large 
hairy heads, and large workers with large pol- 
ished heads. These ants are injurious to plantations, 
from the extent to which they strip plants of their leaves 
to carry to their nests. They may often be seen in long 
flies carrying pieces of leaves. They burrow very exten- 
sively underground, some of their galleries being hundreds 
of yards long. The winged females are often eaten by the 
natives. 
sauce (sas), it. [Also dial, sass; early mod. E. 
also sawce; < ME. sauce, sause, sawce, sawse, 
salse = D. saus (> E. souse) = G. Dan. sauce = 
Sw. sauce, satt, < OF. siiuce, sause, sausse, salce, 
saulce, saulse, F. sauce = Pr. Sp. Pg. It. salsa, < 
ML. salsa, f. (also, after Rom., salcia), sauce, < 
L. salsa, things salted, salt food (cf . aqua salsa, 
salted water), neut. pi. of salsus, pp. of salire, 
salt, < sal, salt : see sal ft. Cf . sausage, saucer, 
souse, from the same source.] 1. A condiment, 
as salt or mustard ; now, usually, an accompa- 
niment to food, usually liquid or soft, and highly 
seasoned or flavored, eaten as a relish, an ap- 
petizer, or a digestive: as, miut-sattoe; white 
xiiuce; lobster-.s-nnce; sauce piquantc. 
Thei ete at here ese as the! mijt thanne, 
boute [but, without] salt other sauce or any semli drynk. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.X 1. 1882. 
Also to know youre saioces for flesche conveniently, 
Hit provokithe a fyne apetide if sawce youre mete be bie. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 151. 
The Sauce is costly, fur it far exceeds the cates. 
Greene, Never Too Late. 
Avoid curiosities and provocations ; let your chiefcst 
sauce be a good stomach, which temperance will help to 
get you. Perm, Advice to Children, iii. 
Hence, specifically 2. Garden vegetables or 
roots eaten with flesh-meat: also called gar- 
den-sauce. [Prov. Eng. and U. S.] 
Of corn in the blade you may make good green sauce, of 
a light concoction and easy digestion. 
Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, ill. 2. 
3. Fruit stewed with sugar ; a compote of fruit : 
as, apple-srawce. 4. Pertness; insolence; im- 
pudence, or pert or insolent language. [Now 
colloq.] 
Then full of sawce and zeal, up steps Elnathan. 
Satyr against Hypocrites (1689). (Nares, under duetonff- 
Nanny . secretly chuckled over her outburst of 
" sauce " as the best morning's work she had ever done. 
George Eliot, Amos Barton, vu. 
5. The soft green or yellowish substance of a 
lobster. See tomalley. 6. A mixture of fla- 
voring ingredients used in the preparation of 
tobacco and snuff. [Eng.] Carrier's sauce, 
poor man's sauce. Marine sauce. See marine. Poor 
man's sauce, hunger. To serve one (with) the same 
sauce, to requite one injury with another. [Colloq.] 
If he had been strong enough I dare swear he would 
have send him the same Sauce. 
Ward, London Spy (ed. 1703). (Nares.) 
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, 
the same principle applies in both cases; what is applica- 
ble in one case should be applied to all similar cases. 
sauce (sas), r. (. ; pret. and pp. sauced, ppr. sau- 
cing. [Early mod. E. also sawce; < ME. sawcen, 
sausen, < OF. saucier, saucer, F. saucer, sauce; 
from the noun.] 1. To add a sauce or relish 
to; season; flavor. 
He cut our roots in characters, 
And sauced/our broths, as Juno had been sick 
And he her dieter. Shak. , Cymbeline, iv. 2. 50. 
Right costly Cates, made both for shew and taste, 
But muc'd with wine. 
Heywood, Hierarchy of Angels, p. 290. 
2. To gratify; tickle (the palate). [Rare.] 
Sauce his palate 
With thy most operant poison. 
Shak.,T. of A.,iv. 3. 24. 
3. To intermix or accompany with anything 
that gives piquancy or relish ; hence, to make 
pungent, tart, or sharp. 
Sorrow sauced with repentance. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., March. 
His store of pleasures must be sauced with pain. 
Marlowe, Faustus, v. 4. 
4. To be saucy or pert to ; treat saucily, or with 
impertinence; scold. 
As fast as she answers thee with frowning looks, I'll 
sauce her with bitter words. 
Shak., As you Like it, ill. v. 69. 
5f. To cut up; carve; prepare for the table. 
Sauce that capon, sauce that playce. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 265. 
The bodie [of the slave sacrificed] they sauced and 
dressed for a banquet about breake of day, after they had 
bid the Idoll good morrow with a small dance. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 810. 
6. To make to pay or suffer. 
Ill make them pay ; I'll sauce them : they have had 
my house a week at command ; I have turned away my 
other guests ; . . . I'll ~ * M w Q{ w iy 3 . n . 
sauce-alone (sas'a-lon"), . [< ME. sawce-lyne, 
supposed to be a corruption of sauce-alone : see 
sauce and alone.] An Old World cruciferous 
plant, Sisymbrium Alliaria (Alliaria officinalis), 
emitting a strong smell of garlic: sometimes 
used as a salad. Also called garlic-mustard, 
Jiedge-aarlic, and jack-by-the-Jiedge. 
sauce-boat (sas'bot), . A dish or vessel with 
a lip or spout, used for holding sauce. 
saucebox (sas'boks), n. [< sauce + box*.] A 
saucy, impudent person. [Colloq.] 
Marry come up, sir saucebox ! I think you'll take his 
part, will you not? 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Burning Pestle, iii. 5. 
The foolish old poet says that the souls of some women 
are made of sea- water ; this has encouraged my saucebox 
to be witty upon me. Addison, Spectator. 
sauce-crayon (sas'kra"on), . Avery soft black 
pastel used for backgrounds in pastel or crayon 
drawings. 
sauce-dish (sas'dish), . A dish for sauce. 
saucepan (sas'pan), n. 1. Originally, a pan for 
cooking sauces. 2. A small metallic vessel 
for cooking, having a cover, and a long handle 
projecting nearly horizontally from the side. 
saucepan-fish (sas 'pan -fish), w. The king- 
crab, Limitlus polypnevnu: so called from its 
shape. See casxfrole-fisli. 
saucer (a'ser), . [Early mod. E. also sawcer, 
gunner; < ME. sawcer, saweere, sauser, sawser, 
saucy 
sun-tour, < OF. ganxsiere, F. xanrihr, a sauce- 
dish, = Sp. salsera = Pg. salseira = It. salsiera, 
a vessel for holding sauce, < ML. 'salsaria, f., 
salsarium, neut., a salt-cellar or a sauce-dish, < 
salsa, salcia, sauce, L. salsa, salted things: see 
sauce.] 1. A small dish or pan in which sauce 
is set on the table ; a sauce-dish. 
Of dowcetes, pare awey the sides to the botomm, & that ye 
lete 
In & tsawcm afore youre souerayne semely ye hit sett. 
Babees Book (F.. E. T. S.), p. 148. 
Take violets, and infuse a good pugil of them in a quart 
of vinegar- . refresh the infusion with like quantity of 
new violets, seven times ; and it will make a vinegar so 
fresh of the flower as if a twelvemonth after it be brought 
you in a saucer you shall smell it before it come at you 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., 17. 
2. A small, round, shallow vessel, a little deep- 
er than a plate, upon which a cup, as a tea- or 
coffee-cup, is placed, and which is designed to 
retain any liquid which may be spilled from the 
cup. 3. Something resembling a saucer, (a) 
A kind of flat caisson used in raising sunken vessels. (6) 
A socket of iron which receives the spindle or foot upon 
which a capstan rests and turns round. Sand saucer. 
See sand-saucer. 
saucer-eye (sa'ser-I), n. A large, prominent 
eye. 
But where was your conscience all this while, woman? 
did not that stare you in the face with huge saucer-eyes f 
Vanbrugh, Relapse, v. 3. 
saucer-eyed (sa'ser-Id), a. Having very large, 
round, prominent eyes. 
sauceryt (sa'ser-i), n. [Early mod. E. also saw- 
eery, saulcery; < OF. "saucerie, < ML. salsana, 
a department of a royal kitchen having charge 
of sauces and spices, also prob. a sauce-dish, 
< salsa, salcia, sauce: see sauce.] A place for 
sauces or preserves. 
The skullary and sawcery. 
Rutland Papers, p. 40. (Nares.) 
sauce-tureen (sas'tu-reu"), . A small tureen 
for holding sauce or gravy. 
sauch, saugh (sach), . A Scotch form of sal- 
toifl. 
The glancin' waves o Clyde 
Throch sauchs and hangin' hazels glide. 
Pmkerton, Bothwell Bank. 
O wae betide the frush saugh wand ! 
And wae betide the bush of brier ! 
Annan Water (Child's Ballads, n. 189). 
saucily (sa'si-li), adv. In a saucy manner; 
pertly; impudently; with impertinent boldness. 
That freed servant, who had much power with Claudius, 
very saucily had almost all the words. 
Bacon, Apophthegms. 
sauciness (sa'si-nes), n. The character or fact 
of being saucy; hence, also, saucy language 
or conduct; impertinent presumption; impu- 
dence ; contempt of superiors. 
You call honourable boldness impudent sauciness. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 1. 135. 
Jealousy in a gallant is humble true love, . . . but in a 
husband 'tis arrant sauciness, cowardice, and ill-breeding. 
Wycherley, Gentleman Dancing- Master, v. 1. 
= Syn. Impertinence, E/rnntery, etc. (see impudence), 
malapertness. 
saucisse (so-ses'), w. [F., a sausage: see sau- 
sage.] In fort, and artillery : (a) A long pipe 
or' bag, made of cloth well pitched, or of lea- 
ther, filled with powder, and extending from 
the chamber of a mine to the entrance of the 
gallery. To preserve the powder from dampness, it is 
generally placed in a wooden pipe. It serves to commu- 
nicate fire to mines, caissons, bomb-chests, etc. (ft) A 
long bundle of fagots or fascines for raising bat- 
teries and other purposes. 
saucisson (s6-se-son'), n. [F., < saucisse, a sau- 
sage : see saucisse.] Same as saucisse. 
saucy (sa'si), a. [Also dial, sassy; early mod. 
E.saucie,sawcy,sawcie; <sauce + -y*.] 1. Full 
of sauce or impertinence; flippantly bold or 
impudent in speech or conduct; impertinent; 
characterized by offensive lightness or disre- 
spect in addressing, treating, or speaking of 
superiors or elders ; impudent; pert. 
When we see a fellow sturdy, lofty, and proud, men say 
this is a saucy fellow. Lattmer, Misc. Sel. 
Am I not the protector, ""-* VL> ,. ,_ 46 . 
My father would prefer the boys he kept 
To greater men than he ; but did it not 
Till they were grown too saucy for himself. 
Beau, and FL, Philaster, ii. 1. 
The best way is to grow rude and saucy of a sudden. 
Swift, Advice to Servants (General Directions). 
2. Characterized by or expressive of pertness 
or impudence. 
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, 
That will not be deep-search 'd with saucy looks. 
Shak., L. L. L., 1. 1. 86. 
